Zooey wrote:

It wouldn’t be a Jeff Fisher draft without the addition of a defensive player.

That’s the thing about Fisher. He’s a coach who will draft a defensive player. That’s what really sets him apart from other coaches in the league who get all their defensive players through free agency. It’s takes balls, man.

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He’s a man apart, alright. A rebel with balls. But is he a Holden Caulfield or a Cool Hand Luke?

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Zooey wrote:

bnw wrote:

I have not heard of it.

Dead Poets Society. A film with Robin Williams. 90% of the humor in this depends upon having seen that film.

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So you liked the DPS ? Cause i remember arguing with zn and RFL about it. RFL just blasted it, as i recall.

I thought it was a nice movie.

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How are the St.Louis stations gonna handle Rams games now?

I mean, I would think there are still a ton of Ram
fans in St.Louis. Most of the Loo fans just watched the Rams
on tv like the rest of us. A lot of em probly dont care
all that much about where they play. Yes? No?

Just my opinion, but I think there’s an opportunity here
for a crafty-smart station. I bet there’s still plenty
of interest for a lot of St.Loo fans. Despite all the…ya know.

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Zooey wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

So it’s only been 50 years since the poor were more than an afterthought to a US president? Then what’s the issue?

Hmm. I’ have to say, Yes. Very few of us are old enough to remember anything that the government did in our lifetime that actually helped poor people.

Although we have given them non-stop opportunities to go out in a blaze of glory defending our freedom from brown and yellow peasants. There’s that.

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I keep thinking of the Bernie quote about McDowell County in WV.
Average lifespan for males is 64. Six hour drive to Fairfax County in Va — 82 years. Think about that. But dont just think of the quantity of years, think about the ‘quality’ of life of poor people. In a gazillion ways they are dehumanized. Start with simple obvious things — like dental care. Think about daily ‘stress’. Think about trying to raise children under overwhelming ‘stress’… I could go on. But all the politicians (and voters) want to talk about is ‘the middle class.’ It makes me crazy.

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Harold Laski (1930): “A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.”

Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison (in Growing Prosperity, 2000): “If you pour enough wealth into the funnel at the top, those at the bottom eventually receive a little of the benefits themselves. One might ask, what kind of decent society requires making the rich that much richer to prevent everyone else from getting poorer?”

“Plato told Aristotle no one should make more than five times the pay of the lowest member of society. J.P. Morgan said 20 times. Jesus advocated a negative differential – that’s why they killed him.” Graef Crystal (compensation expert 1998)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862):”It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the devil work hard.”

Oh, I dunno. I guess I’m always at odds with the Corporate side
of my little Rams hobby. Ya know. I don’t think i like any
of the big-money-corporate aspects of pro-football.

So, i just focus on the ‘game’ and the coaching and plays
etc, etc.

I dont wanna get into the ‘why’ i dont like the mega-corporate
aspects of pro-football, for all the obvious reasons. Aint the right
board for that, and the regulars already know what i think anywayz…

I wish i understood more about the history of the Green Bay Communists
and just how exactly that whole thing (whatever it is) managed to
exist and thrive in the NFL.

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“…Bill Clinton turned out to be a “New Democrat,” in other words a triangulating neoliberal corporatist…. Barack Obama has been a terrific President whose administration has been, nevertheless, not nearly as progressive as the two campaigns he waged to get into the White House led progressives to expect…”

First off jst let me say i HATE the word ‘neoliberal’ — I hate it
coz it confuses a lot of average joe and janes. People interested
in communicating with the masses should use a word like corporate-puppet
or rightwinger or somethin thats not an ‘insider’ word…

Second….Obama has been a ‘terrific President’ ?

Um…no.

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The thing about the rightwingers is they are usually quite honest. I mean this is a perfectly honest, up-front, direct encapsulation of their view:

“..The 1st Amendment guarantees freedom, not equality. Rights are exercised to radically unequal degrees, and the right to speech is no exception.”

That was, essentially what William F Buckley repeated over and over again for decades on his show. That same idea, right there.

Citizens United fosters Inequality. The Right is fine with Inequality.
(Buckley used to argue you cant have democracy without inequality)

As a person of the left that whole notion is
appalling.

…and i’m still not voting for Clinton 🙂
Cause she’s a crusher-of-poor-human-beings.

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zn wrote:

The arrival of the NFL significantly altered the list of the 50 Most Powerful in Southern California Sports

My first thought reading all this was…SFW.

My last thought, though, was…SFW.

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I heard, Mr. Kroenke has a golden toilet.

I also heard that he is so powerful that when the media is in his presence
they feel tingling sensations in their anuses.

I dont even know what that means, but its what i heard.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

What is this “guess what” thing,
Snead has fallen into.

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It’s the evolved, more adult version of what players always say–“you know.”

He used to be a college player, but, the brain changes as you grow older. You know?

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What if that’s not what’s happening.

What if his mind is slowly being taken over
by some evil mysterious force.

I’m not even talkin about some Lizard type force.

Could be amphibians, for all we know.

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“He was at his best when we went out on the field and we started making things more complicated” — Gruden